Barren, KY
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology.
Environmental data for Barren in Kentucky · Population: 44,670
Barren, KY is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 9 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 4 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 32/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 1.1M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 1 water system carries an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (4)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| GLASGOW WATER COMPANY | 36,766 | 0 |
| MAMMOTH CAVE/CENTRAL SYSTEM | 5,000 | 0 |
| CAVELAND ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITY, INC. | 3,264 | 0 |
| BROWNSVILLE MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM | 1,441 | 9 |
TRI Facilities (9)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akebono Brake Corp-Glasgow | 455.3K lbs |
| 2 | Felker Brothers | 286.4K lbs |
| 3 | Braking Products Group US LLC | 158.3K lbs |
| 4 | Nemak Glasgow Plant #1 | 103.6K lbs |
| 5 | Bluegrass Dairy & Food Inc | 56.1K lbs |
| 6 | Lsc Communications / Glasgow | 5.3K lbs |
| 7 | Felker Brothers Corp. Plant 2 | 868 lbs |
| 8 | Nemak; Glasgow Plant #2 | 132 lbs |
| 9 | Twb Glasgow | 0 lbs |
Cities in Barren (1)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.